Fasting Quotes

166 Fasting quotes by 93 unique authors

There is but one power which heals—that is God. The state or condition through which the healing takes place is the confidence of the heart.… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer. — Horatio Alger
Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans. — Upton Sinclair
Regarding Fasting: Have the faith to bind the Lord. — L. Tom Perry
Join a company of young men and women who have made a covenant by sacrifice to turn a nation through united massive fasting and prayer. — Lou Engle
Fasting deals with the two great barriers to the Holy Spirit that are erected by man's carnal nature. These are the stubborn self-will of the… — Derek Prince
Fasting with a pure heart and motives, I have discovered, brings personal revival and adds power to our prayers. Personal revival occurs because fasting is… — Bill Bright
Fasts and vigils, the study of Scripture, renouncing possessions and everything worldly are not in themselves perfection, as we have said; theyare its tools. For… — John Cassian
If you offer fasting with humility and with mercy, your bones, as Isaiah said, shall be fat, and you shall be like a well-watered garden… — Ambrose
Anyone who has fallen into fornication, adultery or any other such bodily impurity, should desist from this revolting filth and cleanse himself through confession, tears,… — Gregory Palamas
I believe that there is no prayer without fasting and there is no real fast without prayer. — Mahatma Gandhi
Temples are more than stone and mortar. They are filled with faith and fasting. They are built of trials and testimonies. They are sanctified by… — Thomas S. Monson
Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world. — Fulton J. Sheen
Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food. — Dallas Willard
Fasting makes sense if it really chips away at our security and, as a consequence, benefits someone else, if it helps us cultivate the style… — Pope Francis
No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others. So, no matter how much time you spend fasting,… — Pope Francis
The doctors of antiquity have affirmed that love is a passion that resembles a melancholy disease. The physician Rasis prescribed, therefore, in order to recover,… — Marsilio Ficino
Fasting gives you confidence to know that your spirit can master appetite . . . and helps to protect against later uncontrolled cravings and gnawing… — Russell M. Nelson
Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation. — Donald Barthelme
I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation. — David Blaine
Fasting cures diseases, dries up bodily humors, puts demons to flight, gets rid of impure thoughts, makes the mind clearer and the heart purer, the… — Athenaeus
Fasting of the body is food for the soul. — Saint John Chrysostom
Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. — Hermann Hesse
[B]y far the larger number of the dreams... occurred towards dawn; sometimes even, after sunrise, during a "second sleep." A condition of fasting, united, possibly,… — Anna Kingsford

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